US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on March 24 for "Collision avoidance methods and systems using external lighting systems" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,619, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Collision avoidance methods and systems using external lighting systems" was invented by Saravana Venkatesh Narayana Samy (Madurai, India), Gobinathan Baladhandapani (Madurai, India), Anand Kutuva (Bangalore, India) and Sunit Kumar Saxena (Urbana, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle systems and methods are provided for visually alerting a vehicle operator to a potential obstacle in the vicinity of a vehicle using an external lighting system associated with the vehicle. An exemplary method involves identifying an analysis portion of imag...